Instruments of war shape the battlefield. Today drones are revolutionizing the way armies fight. In 1914-1915 aeroplanes entered into the fray providing elementary observations at first and gradually evolved into detailed assessments of enemy locations and potential to wage battle in a given sector. The Western Front quickly slid into positional war and held the battle line until 1918. This was not the case with the Eastern Front. The vast terrain of Russia, the Polish Salient, Galicia and Germany created a landscape of maneuvering armies that fought and suffered catastrophic casualties. Throughout the campaigns of this time aviation matured with more capable aeroplanes, advances in aerial cameras, and signal intelligence processes. The combination of these significant resources that constitute modern day intelligence explains aviation’s potential greater than any other factor of the Great War. Shooting the Front Eastern Operations, Volume II “Russfront, Aerial Reconnaissance Over Mobile Battlefields” describes the evolution in significant detail beyond any work to date. It is a subject long overdue for those who concern themselves with understanding how warfare is fought and defines the military of the past, today and the future. 322 pages.